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A friend sent this in our group text this am.
Carls Jr drive through in Mammoth.
Anyone been up there and can confirm?
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Heading up today for the weekend.
Saw that pic on FB this morning, so it must be real :)
Sounds like we will get a full in person report once you arrive? Looking at the snow report there is over 400 inches so I don't think that pic is too far off from what they are dealing with.
 

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Its real...buddies been sending pics all week... My HOA has been sending emails too...1st, homeowers, we can now only fit 1 car per household since we can't keep up with snow removal.... 2nd email... Homeowners, the dumpsters have been snowed in and we can't get snow removal or get them out so we have missed pickup...keep your trash on the balcony or the bears are gonna go ape shit.... 3rd email....Homeowners, if you don't live here full time maybe consider staying home as the town is really dealing with lots of snow and services are impacted (this was the day they got 30+" overnight..:). 4th email...Homeowners, we have not been able to get roofs cleared due to snow removers being booked and we are 2"'s away from the tops of most fireplaces so don't use your fireplace..... 5th email, homeowners, for those renting please stress chain before you get here, not in parking lot, bring a shovel don't ask to borrow HOA shovels,ect, ect, ect... :):):):):):)

Town has been buried and doing pretty good considering...epic snow, epic start to winter....hope Feb and March bring it too...
 

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To give perspective, I just looked at the numbers and it looks like Mammoth got 20' of snow in a 19 day period from 12/27 to 1/17... 20' in 3 weeks is absolutely crazy and an annual total for most resorts around the world...

And they just got a fresh 3-5" last night... bring it!
 

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Yeah it's real. I have a customer up there who is trying to build a house and get reports from him. It's crazy deep up there
 

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Stumbled across "Mammoth Mountain Life" on YouTube. Channel about snow clearing business up there......Crazy amount of snow.
 

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Its real...buddies been sending pics all week... My HOA has been sending emails too...1st, homeowers, we can now only fit 1 car per household since we can't keep up with snow removal.... 2nd email... Homeowners, the dumpsters have been snowed in and we can't get snow removal or get them out so we have missed pickup...keep your trash on the balcony or the bears are gonna go ape shit.... 3rd email....Homeowners, if you don't live here full time maybe consider staying home as the town is really dealing with lots of snow and services are impacted (this was the day they got 30+" overnight..:). 4th email...Homeowners, we have not been able to get roofs cleared due to snow removers being booked and we are 2"'s away from the tops of most fireplaces so don't use your fireplace..... 5th email, homeowners, for those renting please stress chain before you get here, not in parking lot, bring a shovel don't ask to borrow HOA shovels,ect, ect, ect... :):):):):):)

Town has been buried and doing pretty good considering...epic snow, epic start to winter....hope Feb and March bring it too...

Pussies. I lived in Mammoth from 92-96. In '92 I was in 6th grade. My mom was a ski instructor. I made more money than her that year shoveling snow after school. We were walking up about 15 feet from the deck at the main lodge to get out....All the main lodge chairs were raised as high as they'd go and were in holes at the bottom. I think they got something like 620" that year...set a new record. I think that record was broken by a few inches about 10 years later.

We just had to do more shoveling....and truck the snow out of town because there was no place to put it.

I'll get some pictures from my Dad this weekend....he's headed up with my son tomorrow
 
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I remember as a kid skiing up there when the whole town would look like that.

Just carved out passages to get from one place to another. It's awesome to see it that way again! 😍
Walking off the second story balcony onto the snow, getting out of the hot tub and jumping into a 20' snow bank then back into the spa, and of course going to Grumpys to eat pizza and play games while the parents drank beer in the bar area!
 

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Yeah it's real. I have a customer up there who is trying to build a house and get reports from him. It's crazy deep up there
Been there done that....when it snows like this all the contractors turn to snow removal as they get 75-100 an hour vs their contractor job....literally when it started snowing in Dec of 2021 our remodel lost about 6 weeks of progress...
 

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View from our rental condo by Eagle Lodge

This reminds me when I was a kid, my grandpa had a cabin in Moonridge which is in Big Bear. This was probably '66 ish and that summer the lake went dry. I was 10 but can remember the locals predicting it would take a decade for the lake to fill. That winter was a massive snow fall and my parents and I got snowed in the little one bedroom cabin. The windows and side doors looked just like your picture. Mom was a smoker and in the Moonridge neighborhood was a small market that carried just the basic stuff for sale. Place was about the size of a 2 car garage with living quarters above. The owner knew us and I'd walk there to get my mom her smokes, Viceroy was her brand or a six pack for dad. Different era for sure. Anyway, we were snowed in for 3 or 4 days and of course if being snow bound wasn't bad enough, no tv or phone in the cabin ever ( I sold it a few years ago and it still had no tv or phone) dad and I were snowbound with a lunatic who was having nicotine withdrawals. To her credit she quit and didn't go back to smoking.

Great pics in the thread! We went to Tahoe for a solid 10 years when we didn't have place at the river and I think twice there was snow like in the pics. The roads looked like a maze, could only see the tops of houses and trees.
 
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My Bury-A-Body buddy from high school and I, are going up for his 62nd birthday in February. Got a nice room at the Inn right at the bottom of the hill. He says he hasn't skied in 16 years but he has lost 40 lbs in the last 18 months and is ready to tear it up. In the 80's he and his two brothers were some of the very fastest on the hill. One year they had little tattletales mounted on skis that recorded speed and elapsed times. We used to drive up in the middle of the night, ski all day, repeat the next day and head for home as soon as the boots come off. Sometimes slept in one brother's Dodge van. Serious fun was had for years up there.
 

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Only been to mammoth a few times as a young lad, last trip we had happened to be at thanksgiving there was about 12 of us and it was an awesome time. My buddy and I went out drinking one night and on the walk home we came upon a springer spaniel, it followed us home and it was snowing so we let it in . We were starving so while everyone was sleeping my buddy and I were drunk enough that we carved into my other buddies long time GF, now wife's turkey she had pre baked for the trip. I guess that would of been pretty bad in itself but to top it off, we left it out and the dog we found ate the whole thing. I guess it couldn't of got much worse except all the turkey the dog ate made him shit all over the condo. Long story short, I never seen my buddies wife again the rest of the trip, she stayed in room the whole time 4 days, its now his ex and we still laugh about it to this day.
 

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We go Feb 8th-13. So excited. Can make it to the lava shoot this year for sure if allowed
 

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Pussies. I lived in Mammoth from 92-96. In '92 I was in 6th grade. My mom was a ski instructor. I made more money than her that year shoveling snow after school. We were walking up about 15 feet from the deck at the main lodge to get out....All the main lodge chairs were raised as high as they'd go and were in holes at the bottom. I think they got something like 620" that year...set a new record. I think that record was broken by a few inches about 10 years later.

We just had to do more shoveling....and truck the snow out of town because there was no place to put it.

I'll get some pictures from my Dad this weekend....he's headed up with my son tomorrow
I snowboarded Mammoth into August in 96'. The last weekend they were open was the second weekend in August.
 

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I snowboarded Mammoth into August in 96'. The last weekend they were open was the second weekend in August.
I remember that.

Pretty sure that was the year they had to plow a slot through the snow on top for the Kamakazi race that summer
 

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I remember that.

Pretty sure that was the year they had to plow a slot through the snow on top for the Kamakazi race that summer
It was. I remember getting off at the top and boarding over to where they had plowed. The walls were 10' 12' high on either side of the shute.
 

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I snowboarded Mammoth into August in 96'. The last weekend they were open was the second weekend in August.
There was a time in the 80's and 90's that my buddy and his brothers skied Cinco de Mayo weekend 15 years in a row. Mammoth in May does not suck.
 

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is that a rear view mirror?
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Looks like it...also looks like it was parked along street and street snow removal probably buried that car....also looks like something hit that rear view mirror as it looks turned in such a way they don't normally turn....
 

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Have not seen this amount of snow in Mammoth in many years
From a Capitalist perspective.....our rental condo is booked solid thru April
 

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Skied this weekend! Good to see mammoth back to these levels.

Everyone keeps calling for a recession, but you wouldn’t know it in mammoth. We stayed at a friends house but heard motel 6 was up to $400 a night lol.

I will say this snow is heavier and my legs are screaming today. But I’ll take wet and heavy snow over nothing.
 

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Skied this weekend! Good to see mammoth back to these levels.

Everyone keeps calling for a recession, but you wouldn’t know it in mammoth. We stayed at a friends house but heard motel 6 was up to $400 a night lol.

I will say this snow is heavier and my legs are screaming today. But I’ll take wet and heavy snow over nothing.
I think the same could be said for Glamis and Havasu...if you go there any winter/summer weekend it does not appear we are in recession... :cool:
 

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A friend sent this in our group text this am.
Carls Jr drive through in Mammoth.
Anyone been up there and can confirm?
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I have a buddy with a place up there, he has taken off work since the beginning of the year to ski. He sent me some pics that looked pretty much the same.
 

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I think the same could be said for Glamis and Havasu...if you go there any winter/summer weekend it does not appear we are in recession... :cool:
I’m just wondering if they’ve gotten everyone on Ikon passes or are people paying $200-250 a day to ski.
 

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I’m just wondering if they’ve gotten everyone on Ikon passes or are people paying $200-250 a day to ski.
Like most pleasures in life....I stopped doing the math.... I could not imagine having the snow hobby without paying for a yearly pass...particularly if it pays off in 4 days. If I golfed (I don't) I would likely join a club so I would not have to pay astronomical green fees... The boating hobby like the sand hobby ...they all cost 200-300 a day to partake when you add up all the shit.. Toys, Insurance, lodging, gas, food...
 
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Like most pleasures in life....I stopped doing the math.... I could not imagine having the snow hobby without paying for a yearly pass...particularly if it pays off in 4 days. If I golfed (I don't) I would likely join a club so I would not have to pay astronomical green fees... The boating hobby like the sand hobby ...they all cost 200-300 a day to partake when you add up all the shit.. Toys, Insurance, lodging, gas, food...

I grew up going to Mammoth, was up there at least 10 times for multiple days in the season. When we first started having kids, we would do one or 2 Mammoth trips a year. Haven't been there since wife was pregnant with our 3rd. It is a rich person's sport now. I can't justify spending $5k for a few days of skiing.
 

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I’m just wondering if they’ve gotten everyone on Ikon passes or are people paying $200-250 a day to ski.
Based on what I saw this weekend, it is a mix.
over 75% have the Ikon. A large % have a military connection and get those tickets. Only a few had day passes and those folks had no idea Ikon existed.
 

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Based on what I saw this weekend, it is a mix.
over 75% have the Ikon. A large % have a military connection and get those tickets. Only a few had day passes and those folks had no idea Ikon existed.
how much is the ikon pass going for these days
 

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how much is the ikon pass going for these days
I have the Ikon Base Pass.
Mine and Wife’s was 750 each, Daughters pass was 200 and college kid was 560.
Family of 4 was just over 2,200 for the year.
We have 5 days @ Winter Park, 2 @ Mammoth so far this season.
 

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I grew up going to Mammoth, was up there at least 10 times for multiple days in the season. When we first started having kids, we would do one or 2 Mammoth trips a year. Haven't been there since wife was pregnant with our 3rd. It is a rich person's sport now. I can't justify spending $5k for a few days of skiing.
Everything is getting out of reach for "normal" families. My Mammoth/June trips were 5-10 a year. Now have not been since 17/18.
 
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